On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 04/05/12 14:23, Bret Busby wrote:
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Perhaps, on installation, the creation of a file to store the original information about the installation (iso image source, full version number and date of version, etc), that could be retrieved any time during the life of the particular installation, would be useful./var/log/installer/lsb-release <snipped>
Thank you for that. Someone had asked the source of my installation iso. " :~$ cat /var/log/installer/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Debian DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer" DISTRIB_RELEASE="6.0 (squeeze) - installer build 20110106+squeeze3+b1" X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom " -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................